Acute oral administration of low doses of methylphenidate targets calretinin neurons in the rat septal area

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  García Avilés, Álvaro ^a   Albert Gascó, Héctor ^a   Arnal Vicente, Isabel ^b   Elhajj, Ebtisam ^c   Sanjuan Arias, Julio ^b   Sanchez Perez, Ana María ^a   Olucha Bordonau, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

ADHD; Calcium binding proteins; Catecholamines; Methylphenidate; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; METHYLPHENIDATE; PROTEIN C FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 84927719615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00033     Document Type: Article

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